TY - JOUR T1 - Umbilical cord thrombosis and chorioamnionitis in neonatal arterial ischaemic stroke JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2021-322143 SP - fetalneonatal-2021-322143 AU - Maroa Dridi AU - Stéphane Chabrier AU - Tiphaine Raia-Barjat AU - Antoine Giraud Y1 - 2021/06/22 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/early/2021/06/28/archdischild-2021-322143.abstract N2 - A baby boy was delivered at term by emergency caesarean section because of abnormal fetal heart rate patterns during spontaneous labour. The umbilical cord arterial blood obtained at delivery had a pH of 6.97 and a lactate concentration of 12.1 mmol/L. The Apgar scores were 3 and 7, respectively, at 1 and 5 min. The proximal umbilical cord had a thrombotic aspect at delivery (figure 1). A thrombus was also identified in the ductus venosus at 1 hour of life. The boy presented left hemicorporeal seizures at 21 hours of life, which revealed a neonatal arterial ischaemic stroke (NAIS; figure … ER -